this post was submitted on 10 Feb 2024
1011 points (99.5% liked)

196

16601 readers
3772 users here now

Be sure to follow the rule before you head out.

Rule: You must post before you leave.

^other^ ^rules^

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Because that's not the point of an LLM lmao

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure but what is their purpose other than to create convincing sounding sentences? And use a lot of computer resources to do so?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sure if you want to reduce it down to it's most basic elements. Anything sounds useless like that. Video games are just dots changing color on a screen and use a lot of electricity. Banking software is just tracking changes to a number and also is extremely inefficient and resource intensive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is not a convincing argument to say that other things can be reduced down arbitrarily, than explaining the usefulness of it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Well I can personally say it has cut down the amount of busy work at my job down by a lot. Boilerplate code is easy and near instantaneous. I am also working on a project that can bridge the communication gap between highly technical text and non technical readers. It works extremely well at this task even with a non fine tuned model, which is my current step in development.